Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-01
SAN ANGELO,
THE GREAT INLAND TOWN OF THE LONE
STAR STATE.

THE GREAT INLAND TOWN OF THE LONE
STAR STATE.
Why should not the Fort Worth end
Rio Grande go to San Angelo as we'll as
to Brentwood? There is not town in
the state that has msde greater progress
I, without the aid OF railroads than mss San
Angelo, and it will take rank with many
places which have railroads.-Fort Worth
GAZETTE.
The question has been asked, the an
swer is not forthcoming, but the echo
comes back and says "why rot?" With
the exception of San Antonio, we know
of no other city which has acquired the
reputation and commercial tame
that San Angelo has without rail-
road facilities. But it must be re-
membered that San Antonio was built up
in those days in the past when there were
comparatively few railroads in the stste
and she had no competition to contend
against, while San Angelo is a phenom-
email city of modern growth-competing
net only with surrounding county"
towns, but discounting even the prices Of
her neighboring railroad rivals. Stran-
gers coming to San Angelo invariably eX-
press upfeigned surprise at finding such
q city-"way out here" as they tern it
ard some, no. finding language capable
of expressing their ideas, term San Angelo
d Hmonstrositv.r-T San Angelo Enter
prise.
FORT WORTH AND sOUTEE STERN.
BRYAN CITIZEN MARKS OUT THE LINE
TO CORsICANA, CROCKETT AND WOOD
VILE.
BRYAN, TEX. Feb. p, 1887.
To the Editor of the Gazette:
Having lived in three of the counties
Houston, Trinity end Polk through
which the proposed Fort Worth, South
eastern and New Orleans Railroad must
inevitably run, if built at all, naturally
feel an interest in the said route.
There is no road which would link the
east, west and northwest together more
closely than the said proposed road,
bringing to the western country the best
long leaf pine lumber found in ali Texas
for building purposes, and bring her in
direct communication with the greatest
sugar and molasses market in the world.
This is not the only road striking for
New Orleans, there are others, anu many
capitalists who see the great natu-
raj advantages afforded them by
having direct communication with this
crest southern mart. The most ad-
vantageous Ioute, after leaving Wood
Vile, would be 10 go through or near
Moscow. Polk county, having advantage
Of u ridge route and reaping the benefit
of the pinery which no other
road has reached. From the
latter point, through a pinery
nearly all the way to Pennington, Trinity
county, having little or no obstruction
i'll the way of broken country. From this
place to Crockett, Houston county,
is practicable route, but few
streams to cross and some pinery
to ne used to advantage. At
ter leaving Crockett, the most practicable
country over which to build this road
would be to cross the Trinity river at or
near the point where the counties Of
Houston and Leon and Anderson join;
thence on the route suggested heretofore
through Fairfield, COrsicana AID WaXa
hachie to Fort Worth.
The advantages Of a road leading in
this direction and through these couu-
ties mentioned are undoubtedly apparent,
both to the builders OF the road and to
these through or near whose lands it
should RUIZ.
Fort Worth, no doubt, will guard her
interests and do her part in putting this
great enterprise through, and THE GA
zETTE will, as she has done in the past,
show its people the road leading 10 the
goal.